Encyclopedia of Aging and Public Health (Gale Group) by Offers an accurate and complete picture of the aging process and elder health. Includes a historical and demographic overview of aging in America, a guide to biological changes accompanying aging, an analysis of the diversity of the U.S. elder population, legal issues commonly affecting older adults, and the ethics of using cognitively impaired elders in research. Provided by UT Southwestern and UT System libraries.
Encyclopedia of Public Health (Gale Group) by Examines topics as broad in range as environmental health, drug abuse, epidemiology, nutrition, demographics, and diseases. Includes overviews, definitions, and biographical entries. Provided by UT Southwestern and UT System libraries.
Essentials of Epidemiology in Public Health, 4th ed. (ProQuest Ebook Central) by Combines theory and practice in presenting traditional and new epidemiologic concepts. Covers the basic concepts and data sources, including a major emphasis on study design and separate chapters devoted to each of the three main analytic designs: experimental, cohort, and case-control studies. Includes up-to-date examples from the epidemiologic literature on diseases of public health importance.
Introduction to Public Health, 4th ed. (ClinicalKey for Nursing) by Defines the discipline of public health, the nature and scope of public health activity, and the challenges that face public health in the 21st century. Designed for undergraduate health science and nursing students, the text helps readers with their understanding of the nature and scope of public health and the challenges facing the field into the future. Note: Users must register for and login to a personal ClinicalKey account to open a book chapter in PDF. (Due to publisher restrictions, some titles may not provide PDFs of book chapters; for those titles, only HTML full-text is available.)
Public Health Evaluation and the Social Determinants of Health (Taylor & Francis) by Blends current research, existing data, and participatory evaluation methods to introduce various social determinants of health (SDOH), discusses how they relate to public health programs, and explains how to design and evaluate interventions bearing them in mind.
Understanding Public Health: Productive Processing of Internal and External Reality (Taylor & Francis) by Develops a new model of the genesis of health, on the basis of the interplay between genetic and environmental factors. Offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary theory of health genesis and success: Productive Processing of Reality (PPR) to show that health is the lifelong dynamic process of dealing with the internal reality of physical and psychological impulses and the external reality of social and material impulses.